Avenue Grill sunset

One of my favorite restaurants in Denver is on East 17th Ave.

Fountain at US Capitol

The fountain at the Capitol Reflecting Pool just before it began to rain.

Glass cactus

Went for a tour of Chihuly: The Nature of Glass" at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix a few weeks ago.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Scottsdale, AZ, complex

At Wright's Taliesin West, recognized among the world's great masterpieces of architecture. This was taken by Devera on a tour while I was golfing.

One lap of the Rockies

The story was posted to the motorcycle group website a couple weeks ago. That's Old Faithful erupting on cue. The trip was a blast.

One lap of the Rockies

We came, we saw, we uplinked

Outside the new White Sox - Dodgers spring training complex in Glendale, AZ

Ducks on Sloans Lake, revised

A trimmed version of the previous but rendered in higher quality.

Sherman Street noon

Out for a lunchtime walk around downtown Denver this week. Looking north on Sherman Street near 17th Avenue.

Boarding from Loveland Pass

On a bright afternoon this week, a pair of boarders rest on the Loveland Pass marker before beginning the trip down towards the highway.

Gull on a wall

One more from the Christmas trip to California. This was taken at Scripps Park in La Jolla.

My regular dashboard

A mileage milestone, just past.

Horse on a chair in Denver

Outside the Denver Public Library, the horse standing on a chair has a great view of the Capitol.

An afternoon at the library

The plaza on the west side of the Denver Public Library offers visitors an outsize sense of scale.

Antique tractors at Western Stock Show Parade

This McCormick-Deering Orchard model tractor is a late 1930s or 1940s vintage. Near the end of the annual parade on the third day of the Stock Show in Denver, the antique tractors follow the cattle, horses and beauty queens, but ride before the street sweeper.

Further down Hollywood Blvd.

This Hollywood tourist was soon led off to a detention cell on the Death Star. No word on his fate. This photo was taken on Dec. 23 in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater.

La Jolla Cove sea lions

The tide was coming in, but the young sea lions were not.

Hollywood landmark

Haven't taken a stroll down Hollywood Blvd. in years. At the corner of Highland, the old First National Bank Building was built in 1927 and until 1932, was the tallest building in town.

Restaurant sign in La Jolla

The mural outside this restaurant on Prospect Street

in La Jolla caught my eye. The restaurant website is here.

Seminary at Northwestern University

If I'm reading the map correctly, that's the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary building near the lagoon on the NU Campus.

Lake Michigan is a dangerous body of water

That's what the sign at the left says, although on this day it looked pretty non-threatening.